With a loud boom and bang the residents of northern New Jersey were shaken. On Monday, around 10:30pm, there was an earthquake in Dover, Wharton, Denville, Randolph, Mine Hill and the Rockaways in Morris County,New Jersey. This quake had a magnitude of 3.0, something more higher than we usually see in here. 3.0 is considered minor, but huge for NJ, as this large of an earthquake typically does not occur, according to U.S. Geological Survey. The last earthquake reported was in Hunterdon County in July with a magnitude of 2.1. And the largest one before this was in 1884 off of Sandy Hook with a magnitude of 5.5. Although there was shaking furniture, there was no one reported injured. "The quake occurred at 10:34 p.m., and the epicenter was about five miles north-northwest of Morristown, near Victory Gardens, "said John Bellini a geophysicist with the USGS. One resident responds,Kevin Meyer said,"his house in Rockaway Township felt "like a plate on a tablecloth and somebody tried to pull the tablecloth. 
The whole house went up, and there was a loud boom," he said. "Literally, it felt like a wave of energy passed under the house. It was pretty strong. At first I wasn't sure I was awake." At the Exxon Station in Rockaway, NJ one 40 year old attendent has to say about the earthquake,“It was like a bomb, a strong one,” said Cafer Sahin. Some scientists believe a 5.5-magnitude earthquake could happen every 120 years and a 7.0-magnitude quake every 3,400 years, Gates said."Right now is when we should hit a five, we're in the range for that," he said. "It could come tomorrow, it could come 100 years from now. You don't know." As for now the earthquake has passed and what happens ahead, well i guess we'll just have to wait and see what happenes.For more information try: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/it_sounded_like_an_explosion.html
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